Word: stroke
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hours in the hospital after birth, and another saw children by the side of the road in New Jersey and said out loud, "There's a tax cut. There's another. $500." On the day Dole invoked the "Brooklyn Dodgers," Clinton went to the Grand Canyon--and with the stroke of a pen made it bigger. Clinton toured nursery schools, talked about putting the Internet in the classroom. Dole visited graveyards, and talked about estate taxes. When he dispatched top aide Scott Reed to Dallas last week to ask Ross Perot to quit the race and endorse him, Perot could...
RECOVERING. SIR DIRK BOGARDE, 75, veteran British actor; from a stroke following an operation; in London...
...think that you're still anonymous if you haven't made a home page. The new reality is that if friend or foe is looking for you, you made be only a key stroke away. Try plugging your name into a search engine (e.g. http://www.altavista.digital.com) and see what you get. Your e-mail address is probably out there too (http://www.yahoo.com/search/people/email.html), as are your home address and phone number (http://www.switchboard.com...
...Wilkin's essay makes it clear that Gorey has the right to judge other artists, because he is a master artist himself. Wilkin offers a thorough explanation of the depth of Gorey's artistry, emphasizing "a sense of the artist's ferocious concentration on each stroke of the pen." Her homage is utterly convincing: every Gorey picture draws upon a rich background of visual references, ranging from Japanese prints to surrealist painters. Wilkin correctly argues that "Gorey's dialogue with other art, like his dialogue with literary traditions, is simply evidence of his wide-ranging knowledge and sophisticated grasp...
...finished 11th at the Canadian Open. Since then, he has placed fifth, third, first, third and first, becoming the first golfer to record five consecutive top-five finishes since Curtis Strange in 1982. "He's the shot in the arm the tour needs," said Payne Stewart, who finished one stroke behind Woods at Disney. "He's going to be out here a long time, and y'all are going to be writing about him for a long time." Woods, who overcame illness as well as a competitive field at Disney, had mixed emotions following the win. Taylor Smith...